A connotative turn for pictorial semiotics: The cultural semiotics of Goran Sonesson
Abstract
Goran Sonesson provides a departure point from the work of Roland Barthes in the pictorial semiotic studies. He questions the theoretical and methodological assumptions underlying the Barthesian model. We compare Sonesson's model to results gathered from the iconic analysis of a selected photograph taken from a women's magazine (see Figure 1 above), and conclude that there is little to suggest an analysis of a pictures iconic content will convey its intended message. However, there is some indication that when the conventions or codes
operating within a culture are known, the mechanisms responsible for the production of meaning in the visual medium become more transparent.
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